I wasn’t about to explain to a 6-year-old that women had died, were beaten, starved themselves, were imprisoned and force-fed fighting for rights we still do not have over 100 later.
Author: Lisa Sales
Lisa Sales is the president of Virginia National Organization for Women (NOW), the former Chair of the Fairfax County (Va.) Commission for Women and serves on the policy committee for the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance—because as a survivor of sexual assault, she learned there is a nexus between women’s lack of recognized equality in America and the violence they experience. Virginia is the 38th historic state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
Stop Making Women’s Equality a Political Question Mark
Looking back on 2022, we moved through multiple Equal Pay Days and April’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month… July’s Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention… August’s Women’s Equality Day… October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month… and, just last week, United Nations Human Rights Day. Maybe one day, we won’t need all these special monikers (and painful reminders of just how unequal women are) for these months of the year.
Correct the record, and publish the 28th Amendment once and for all.